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" The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that they are no longer following me and why. "

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" One thing that I get from a lot of people with 'American Gods' is people saying that they would love some kind of glossary with a list of all the Gods and who they are, so that they can look them up. "

" Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? "

" Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. "

" I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written. "

" I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction. "

Science Fiction

" What I'd love to do is every now and then go, 'Oh my God, I've got this amazing idea for 'Doctor Who.' "

" I think of myself as a very lazy author. "

" It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling. "

Having A Good Time

" The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was C.S. Lewis and the 'Narnia' books. "

" The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before. "

" Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. "

" In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly. "

" The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. "

" Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter. "

" When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open. "

" I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws. "

" When I started out, there were a lot of things I knew I couldn't do, and a lot of things I only found out I couldn't do by going and doing it. And no-one was watching, and nobody cared. "

" There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories. "

" As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them. "

" Make good art. "

" I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. "

" A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it. "

" Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort. "

" 'American Gods' was designed to be, if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book, probably another couple of books there to get written. "

" It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers. "

" We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable. "

" Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. "

" The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity. "